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In President Donald Trump's latest public appearance, he appeared to minimize domestic violence while speaking at the Museum of the Bible, where he was said to be defending his administration's "defense of religious liberty."

Speaking about crime in Washington D.C., which he claimed is "virtually nothing" after flooding the city with National Guard who are largely planting mulch and blowing leaves, Trump weighed in on domestic violence, saying: "Things that take place in the home they call crime ... If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this is a crime." He then pivoted to saying he wanted to "bring back religion in America."

Conservative analyst Bill Kristol said on Monday that Secretary of State Marco Rubio made a "revealing mistake" about the Trump administration's decision to attack a supposed drug smuggling boat off the coast of Venezuela.

Kristol, the editor at large for the conservative outlet The Bulwark, joined Tim Miller on a new episode of "The Bulwark Podcast" to discuss the strike. One thing Kristol noted in particular was Rubio's defense of the strike.

President Donald Trump raged on Tuesday at a "horrible tragedy" in a new social media post as a way to promote his preferred candidate in the 2026 North Carolina Senate race.

On Aug. 22, a Ukrainian woman named Iryna Zarutska was killed on the Charlotte Area Transit System. Zarutska had come to the United States after escaping Russia after the war in Ukraine started, according to NBC News. The case has drawn national attention, including from the Trump administration.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt argued without evidence that The Wall Street Journal had proven President Donald Trump did not send a birthday letter to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, even though the publication released a copy of the note.

On Monday, the Journal reported that House Democrats had obtained a copy of the letter from Epstein's estate. The note included a doodle of a woman and mentioned a "wonderful secret."

A White House official denied that a note to Jeffrey Epstein, published by The Wall Street Journal and House Democrats, was authored by President Donald Trump.

On Monday, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee told the paper that the Epstein estate had provided a note that Trump wrote to the sex offender for his 50th birthday. The note referenced a "wonderful secret" and included the silhouette of a naked woman.

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released a risque birthday note from President Donald Trump to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

In July, the Wall Street Journal first reported that Trump had sent Epstein the note written inside of a doodle of a woman's silhouette. The note referenced a "wonderful secret" shared by the two men.

A mysterious blue object spotted between President Donald Trump’s teeth at the U.S. Open set off a social media firestorm and fueled speculation and plenty of mockery about the president’s health.

Legal analyst Amee Vanderpool, who pens the "SHERO" Substack, said she has confirmed the authenticity of a photo of Trump, who appears to be holding something blue in his teeth.

President Donald Trump has given his vice president a portion of his impressive fundraising haul, but it represents only pennies on the dollar.

NBC News reported Monday that Trump’s fundraising emails and donation buttons on his official site ask donors to contribute 5% of their total gift to Vice President JD Vance’s PAC, “Working for Ohio.”

Attorney General James Uthmeier pushed for an investigation of Democratic state Sen. Linda Stewart after MAGA influencer Laura Loomer accused her of "doxxing" Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

In what she called an "exclusive" report on Monday, Loomer said Stewart was "doxxing ICE on her Facebook account & actively tracing their activities in Orlando."

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor condemned her conservative colleagues for allowing the Donald Trump administration to continue making immigration stops based on racial profiling.

In a brief, unsigned order issued Monday, the high court lifted a federal judge's order that had prohibited federal agents from making indiscriminate immigration stops in the Los Angeles area. Sotomayor turned in a searing dissent that laid out the plainly racist intentions of Trump's immigration enforcement.

President Donald Trump downplayed domestic violence in a Monday speech as part of his White House Religious Liberty Commission — and was hit by swift condemnation.

Not only were onlookers outraged by the president's dismissal of spousal abuse, some also called out Trump's own long history with women. The so-called "Access Hollywood" tape, for example, recorded Trump bragging that he can grab women's genitals without consent.